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Home and Away – A Slightly Unusual Lunch with Friends from Abruzzo

It didn’t take me long to realise that Sunday lunch in Abruzzo is not a trivial matter – definitely something not to be taken lightly. Sunday lunch, at home or in a restaurant, often involves a gathering that is bigger than normal. It’s a family occasion, but the family does not end with those still [...]

Set in Abruzzo – please help me find this book

You can cover a great deal of country in books. ~ Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912)

I’m looking for a book. It is called Belloccia: A Hill Village in the Abruzzo by Gimi Jordan. I’ve never seen it. I can’t find it for sale online and I have failed to find it after trawling though [...]

Ignazio Silone Update

If I have a piece of information related to Abruzzo that I just want to pass on without comment I usually use Twitter. In this case I’ve decided to write a short post because I know that many readers of this blog are very interested in Ignazio Silone and not everyone follows using Twitter.

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